This selection of the verse of Valencian poet Vicent Andres Estelles (1924-1993) is accompanied by a translation into English from the original Catalan. The format of an innovative dialogue with classical authors a cornerstone of Estellesian expression constitutes an ingenious invocation and parodic commentary on the output and ethos of the Latin poets Horace, Ovid, Virgil and Catullus, the medieval patriarch of Valencian letters Ausias March and the Renaissance Castilian poet, Garcilaso de la Vega. For Estelles, Octavian Rome provides a parallel to the Franco dictatorship and the historical...